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07 August 2015
06.08.15 - A Swadlincote shopkeeper has been fined £4,000 and ordered to pay £2,737 costs for eight charges of possessing and selling counterfeit tobacco.
04 August 2015
04.08.15 - Dog handling teams discovered thousands of pounds worth of counterfeit and duty-evaded cigarettes stashed in a storage heater, the boot of a car, under stairs and beneath kitchen cabinets.
04 August 2015
04.08.15 - Cigarettes and tobacco - including counterfeit Golden Virginia Hand Rolling Tobacco and cigarettes not marked with the appropriate warning statements or photographs - were found hidden under shelving units, behind other foods on the shelves and in two holdalls in the staff toilets.
03 August 2015
03.08.15 - Illegal, or illicit, tobacco is smuggled, bootlegged or counterfeit, sold cheaply and tax-free and often linked to large-scale organised crime.
31 July 2015
31.07.15 - A trader who was caught selling counterfeit cigarettes and tobacco in East Street Market has been sentenced to a maximum of 12 months (suspended for two years).
30 July 2015
30.07.15 - A trader who sold more than 82,000 fake cigarettes out of a pull-along shopping trolley at a London market pleaded guilty to a string of offences.
24 July 2015
24.07.15 - Trading standards officers raided Zaynes News, Great Cheetham Street East, Higher Broughton, Salford, checking for counterfeit cigarettes and tobacco.
21 July 2015
21.07.15 - The 62-year-old admitted charges of possessing goods with a false trade mark for sale and possessing for supply goods prohibited by safety regulations when he appeared at South Tyneside Magistrates' Court.
21 July 2015
21.07.15 - Co-ordinated raids on 12 shops in Luton have uncovered a large haul in illegal cigarettes.
17 July 2015
17.07.15 - A woman who set up her home as a shop to sell fake designer goods and cigarettes has been put on tag by the courts. Kelly Marie Pearson held thousands of pounds worth of counterfeit stock at her Barrington Crescent home in Thorntree.
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